This release was led by Jb Audras, George Mamadashvili, Sergey Biryukov and Peter Wilson. A path traversal issue via translation files reported independently by Ramuel Gall and during a third party security audit.Bypassing of KSES sanitization in block attributes for low privileged users discovered during a third party security audit.A flaw allowing XSS via open embed auto discovery reported independently by Jakub Żoczek of Securitum and during a third party security audit.

A CSRF issue updating attachment thumbnails reported by John Blackbourn of the WordPress security team.Block themes parsing shortcodes in user generated data thanks to Liam Gladdy of WP Engine for reporting this issue.The security team would like to thank the following people for responsibly reporting vulnerabilities, and allowing them to be fixed in this release. You can review a summary of the maintenance updates in this release by reading the Release Candidate announcement. This minor release features 20 bug fixes in Core and 10 bug fixes for the block editor. First Steps With WordPress or Upgrading WordPress Extended.If you are new to WordPress, we recommend that you begin with the following: įor step-by-step instructions on installing and updating WordPress: To get this version, update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area or visit. On May 16, 2023, WordPress 5.7.9 was released to the public.

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